Hydrohistorian
Town of Kit Carson
Serves Kit Carson.
Modelled boundary. EPA estimated this service area (Random Forest) rather than tracing a utility-supplied map; treat the edge as approximate. About 1 km².
Where the water comes from
| Facility | Kind | Water |
|---|---|---|
| NO 2 WELL | Well | Groundwater |
| NO 3 WELL NORTH WELL | Well | Groundwater |
These are EPA's facility records, not DWR structures. Which decreed rights sit behind an intake is the next phase; nothing here is inferred.
DWR structures that name this system
Source Probable join · fetched 2026-11-06 · matched on DWR's recorded contact or an EPA intake name; verify on the dossier
No DWR structure on file records this system as its contact, and none of its EPA intakes matches a structure name in its districts. DWR records a contact on only a fraction of structures, and only for districts fetched from its live service, so this is absence of a record, not evidence of no rights.
Compliance record
Source Register of another agency · fetched 2026-11-07 · verify at EPA ECHO ↗
Nothing open today, but 4 health-based violations appear on the federal record historically. The history is below.
EPA's own summary: violations in 10 of the last 12 quarters. In violation for, in EPA's words: 2456=Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5); 2950=TTHM; 5000=Lead and Copper Rule; 7500=Public Notice. Currently: 5000=Lead and Copper Rule; 7500=Public Notice.
What happened
All 4 violation records on file, grouped into the 1 distinct thing EPA's codes describe. Dates are the compliance period the violation is filed against.
Rule: Other inorganic chemicals.
Every violation record, as filed (4 of 4)
| Compliance period | What | About | Kind | Status | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-01 – 2016-03-31 | MCL, Average | Selenium | health-based | returned to compliance (2016-10-31) | 0.089 MG/L |
| 2015-10-01 – 2015-12-31 | MCL, Average | Selenium | health-based | returned to compliance (2016-10-31) | 0.089 MG/L (limit 0.05) |
| 2015-07-01 – 2015-09-30 | MCL, Average | Selenium | health-based | returned to compliance (2016-10-31) | 0.087 MG/L (limit 0.05) |
| 2015-04-01 – 2015-06-30 | MCL, Average | Selenium | health-based | returned to compliance (2016-10-31) | 0.085 MG/L (limit 0.05) |
What the regulator did about it
55 enforcement actions on this system's federal record. In Colorado the state is the primacy agency, so most actions are the state's; EPA acts directly on tribal systems and when it steps in.
| Date | Action | By |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-15 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2026-05-07 | St Compliance achieved RTC with copy of lead consumer notice provided to LCR001 and COD certifying all notices were distributed as required, materials submitted to portal 5/7/2026. SOX with required materials submission date -STF 5/11/2026 |
state |
| 2025-07-21 | St Public Notif received System completed PN for violation received due to late CCR distribution. Copy of PN and COD certifying notice was directly distributed 7/21/2025 as well as has been posted at City Hall, Post Office, and website, submitted to portal same day -STF 7/21/2025 |
state |
| 2025-07-14 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-07-14 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2025-07-07 | St Compliance achieved RTC with 7/7/2025 completion of pop under 500 waiver activities for CCR certified in COD and submitted to portal 7/9/2025 -STF 7/14/2025 |
state |
| 2025-01-16 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2025-01-16 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-10-25 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-07-25 | St Violation/Reminder Notice System not properly notified at time of original 10/17/2023 violation issuance. Violation notice sent 7/25/2024 -STf 7/25/2024 |
state |
| 2024-07-25 | St Public Notif requested System not properly notified at time of original 10/17/2023 violation issuance. Violation notice sent 7/25/2024 with Tier 3 public notice requirements -STF 7/25/2024 |
state |
| 2024-07-19 | St Compliance achieved Copy of CCR and COD certifying under 500 waiver activities completed 7/19/2024 received via portal same day - STF 7/19/2024 |
state |
| 2024-07-19 | St Public Notif received Public notice for CCR violation distributed with CCR notice of availability upon request and posted at City Hall, Post Office, and website. COD certifying distribution of PN completed by 7/19/2024. Both received via portal same day -STF 7/19/2024 |
state |
| 2024-07-11 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-07-11 | St Public Notif requested | state |
| 2024-06-18 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
| 2024-06-10 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2023-09-29 | St Compliance achieved RTC with late reporting of samples. Sample collected 9/29/2023, reported 10/16/2023. Sampled on time for DBP Q3 restriction -STF 1/23/2024 |
state |
| 2021-01-29 | St Compliance achieved | state |
| 2021-01-25 | St Violation/Reminder Notice | state |
20 most recent of 55; the rest are on the ECHO report.
Lead and copper
The latest 90th-percentile lead result is 0.001 mg/L (sampling period ending 2025-12-31) against an action level of 0.015 mg/L, below it. 7 results on file.
The action level is not a health limit: it is the level at which the rule requires a system to act (corrosion control, public education, and in some cases replacing lead service lines). Lead mostly enters water from household plumbing, so a system-wide percentile does not tell you what comes out of one tap.
Violation, enforcement and lead/copper records are EPA SDWIS federal reporting, fetched monthly; the summary is EPA ECHO. Code names come from EPA's own REF_CODE_VALUE table. SDWIS carries violations, not routine sample results — nitrate, disinfection by-product and PFAS values are not in it, and a clean record here means nothing was reported as a violation, not that nothing was ever detected. For what was measured, ask the system for its Consumer Confidence Report.
PFAS and lithium: EPA's UCMR 5 monitoring, 2023–2025
Source Register of another agency · fetched 2026-10-09 · verify at EPA UCMR occurrence data ↗
EPA did not sample this system under UCMR 5 (the rule covered every system serving more than 3,300 people and a drawn sample of smaller ones).
What changed recently
Differences EPA's monthly federal record showed against the month before. A date in brackets is EPA's own; otherwise it is when this site first saw the change.
- Enforcement action: St Compliance achieved (2026-05-15)
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Common questions
Who provides drinking water in Kit Carson, Colorado?
The Town of Kit Carson is the public water system serving 326 people in Cheyenne County, from groundwater. Its EPA public water system id is CO0109011.
Where does the Town of Kit Carson get its water?
The Town of Kit Carson reports groundwater as its primary source. EPA lists its source facilities as NO 2 WELL, NO 3 WELL NORTH WELL.
Does the Town of Kit Carson have any drinking water violations?
EPA's compliance record shows no open health-based violations for the Town of Kit Carson at the last monthly fetch. Older and non-health-based entries, if any, are listed on this page.
Places this system serves
Census places its EPA service-area boundary substantially covers. Each page lists every system serving that place.
Every provider in Cheyenne County.
The record
EPA SDWIS federal reporting as of 2026-11-06; the compliance record above is EPA's own, fetched monthly, and the ECHO report carries the rest. Report a problem →